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Rodale Inc. (and its subsidiaries, collectively known as Rodale) is a global health and wellness content company.

Through a broad portfolio of best-in-class brands, Rodale reaches more than 100 million people globally through multiple distribution channels, including magazines, books, online, mobile, e-commerce, direct-to-consumer, social, and video.

Rodale Books is the premier destination for wellness content with a purpose. Authoritative, conversation-changing titles include Jessica Alba’s The Honest Life, Alicia Silverstone’s The Kind Diet, former Vice President Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz’s Onward, Maria Rodale’s Organic Manifesto and Scratch, and Dave Asprey’s The Bulletproof Diet. Among Rodale’s highly successful series are Thug Kitchen, Wheat Belly, and The South Beach Diet, as well as titles from our world-renowned brands, including Prevention’s Sugar Smart books, Men’s Health and Women’s Health Big Books, Runner’s World cookbooks, and more. The Rodale Books website, RodaleWellness.com, is a content and community hub where visitors can find inspiration and information from the world’s top wellness experts for Rodale Books.

A digital leader in the healthy living space, with properties such as Rodale U, an online learning resource, and Rodale’s, a healthy lifestyle e-tail store, the company continues to find new ways to connect with audiences across an array of platforms. Rodale also produces numerous branded experiences that draw more than 100,000 participants annually.

1930

Rodale Manufacturing, a maker of electrical wiring devices, moves from New York City to a former silk mill in Emmaus, Pennsylvania; J.I. Rodale establishes a publishing business.

1937

Rodale Press publishes its first major book, Verb-Finder, a “storehouse of words,” edited by Professor Kingsbury M. Badger of Muhlenberg College.

1940

J.I. and Anna Rodale buy a farm in Emmaus, Pennsylvania; become acquainted with, and excited about, botanist Sir Albert Howard’s ideas on the connection between soil and health. J.I. begins to transform his property into a working organic farm with gardens dedicated to early organic research experiments. Today, the Rodale Organic Farm is a 40-acre certified organic farm and arboretum.

1942

Eager to share his experience from his Emmaus farm with the public, J.I. Rodale publishes Organic Farming and Gardening.

2014

New York Times bestseller Thug Kitchen is released (and has remained on the New York Times Best Sellers list for more than 100 weeks).

2016

Prevention announces a move to an ad-free business model, reflective of the brand’s bold new editorial vision.

Rodale Inc. CEO Maria Rodale authors her first cookbook, Scratch: Home Cooking for Everyone Made Simple, Fun, and Totally Delicious.

Plan to launch Rodale Kids Imprint in Fall 2017 is announced.

2017

Rodale’s Organic Life is a rebranding of Rodale Inc.’s 70-year-old flagship brand, Organic Gardening, as a response to consumers’ growing interest in healthy living through an organic lifestyle. In early 2017, the brand announced a new content strategy to evolve the brand into a robust digital, social, experiential and e-commerce-led business. The magazine ceased print publication with the February/March 2017 issue.